SpaceX launches lunar lander for Japanese venture ispace, which aims to create an economy around the moon

SpaceX launches lunar lander for Japanese venture ispace, which aims to create an economy around the moon

• Japanese lunar exploration company ispace began its long-anticipated first mission on Sunday, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the venture’s lunar lander.
• “This is the very, very beginning of a new era,” ispace founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada told CNBC.
• If successful, ispace would be the first private company to land on the moon – a feat previously accomplished by global superpowers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/11/spacex-launches-japanese-ispace-lunar-lander-first-mission.html